Julie K. Young
@drjuliekyoung.bsky.social
Scientist. Associate Professor & Institute Director. I research wildlife ecology & animal behavior, primarily studying carnivores, their prey, & beavers to reduce conflicts and increase coexistence | she, her
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Julie K. Young
@drjuliekyoung.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Human–Carnivore Interactions: Lessons Learned from Communities in the American West
Types, causes, and intensity of human–carnivore interactions are related to historical context, management policy, and human perception. We used four rural communities in the American West with var...
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Thanks, new followers! 😍 I mainly study human-carnivore conflicts. Starting a 'bluedive' 🧵 on my research. Starting with an oldie because many things we learned are still very true today (especially about misinformation & having a voice). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧪🐷🦌New paper out today on (lack of) competition between native deer and wild pigs: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Leveraging multiple data sources to assess competition between introduced wild pigs and native deer
Introduced species have diverse impacts on native wildlife and ecosystems. Negative effects of introduced species on native species through competition or amensalism are frequently hypothesized, but ...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🧪🐷🦌New paper out today on (lack of) competition between native deer and wild pigs: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Tool use by wolves! So cool: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
See how this wolf steals fish, a new discovery of animals using tools
Video from the coast of British Columbia may be the first documented instance of a wild wolf using a tool, according to the researchers who published it on Monday.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Tool use by wolves! So cool: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
🚨 Hiring a field technician! Help us live-trap (for GPS collars) and camera-trap mesocarnivores in Wichita, KS! See details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🦊🐱
Tech position - urban mesocarnivores
Field technician: Utah State University, Department of Wildland Resources Project: Mesocarnivore urban ecology. Description: We are seeking a field technician to capture and fit GPS collars on coyotes...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🚨 Hiring a field technician! Help us live-trap (for GPS collars) and camera-trap mesocarnivores in Wichita, KS! See details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🦊🐱
🚨 Live or want to visit Michigan this winter? Come work for us! Short-term tech job in December, with housing: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... 🐻🧪❄️
Winter Hair Snare Tech | Natural Resources Job Board
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October 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨 Live or want to visit Michigan this winter? Come work for us! Short-term tech job in December, with housing: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... 🐻🧪❄️
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Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
Our paper just came out on animal behavior & translocations! 🧪
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October 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Our paper just came out on animal behavior & translocations! 🧪
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Fun to be a tiny part (cougar & coyote data from Utah) of this research by Fagan & team! 🐱🐺🧪
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Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways | PNAS
Diverse factors, including environmental features and cognitive processes, can drive
animals’ movements and space use, with far-reaching implicatio...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Fun to be a tiny part (cougar & coyote data from Utah) of this research by Fagan & team! 🐱🐺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🚨Great job with great people in Alaska 🐺🦌🧪
We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...
We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...
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September 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨Great job with great people in Alaska 🐺🦌🧪
We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...
We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...
Graduate position (PhD or MS) available on mountain lions🐱 at USU! Check it out: drive.google.com/file/d/1CahA...
Sanchez - student - Cougar kittens - job ad.pdf
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September 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Graduate position (PhD or MS) available on mountain lions🐱 at USU! Check it out: drive.google.com/file/d/1CahA...
Come join my lab!!! 🧪🦊🐺🐱seeking a PhD student for urban mesocarnivore research. Details at jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... or my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com
PhD position - urban mesocarnivores | Natural Resources Job Board
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August 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Come join my lab!!! 🧪🦊🐺🐱seeking a PhD student for urban mesocarnivore research. Details at jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... or my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com
Now it made it to @npr.org on @waitwaitdonttellme.bsky.social! 🧪🐺🐮🤩
Grad student Lori McCurdy in my lab is working on reducing wolf depredation and created this clip of 'voices' for intense human sounds 😂
Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...
Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...
Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently | CNN
A tense scene between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in their 2019 film “Marriage Story” was great bait for 2020 Oscar voters but apparently there’s another wild species that’s not a fan.
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August 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Now it made it to @npr.org on @waitwaitdonttellme.bsky.social! 🧪🐺🐮🤩
Grad student Lori McCurdy in my lab is working on reducing wolf depredation and created this clip of 'voices' for intense human sounds 😂
Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...
Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...
Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently | CNN
A tense scene between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in their 2019 film “Marriage Story” was great bait for 2020 Oscar voters but apparently there’s another wild species that’s not a fan.
share.google
August 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Grad student Lori McCurdy in my lab is working on reducing wolf depredation and created this clip of 'voices' for intense human sounds 😂
Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...
Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...
Nice coverage of our research about how livestock guardian dogs help in farms! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
Grizzlies Were Raiding Montana Farms. Then Came Some Formidable Dogs.
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July 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Nice coverage of our research about how livestock guardian dogs help in farms! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
Breeding Behavior Technician - Red Wolf | Natural Resources Job Board
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July 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
Morning panel at the Red Wolf workshop. 🧪🐺
July 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Morning panel at the Red Wolf workshop. 🧪🐺
New paper out: Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore - Hyde - Animal Conservation - Wiley Online Library zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐺🧪🐮
Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore
Diversionary feeding—providing food caches to divert predators away from preying on livestock—is a strategy to reduce depredations by Mexican gray wolves but has not been evaluated for its effectiven...
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July 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
New paper out: Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore - Hyde - Animal Conservation - Wiley Online Library zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐺🧪🐮
Fun to be a part of this group of urban ecologists, led by @mhmurray.bsky.social ! Here's our first publication:
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Health as an outcome and driver of human–wildlife interactions
Abstract. Human–wildlife interactions (HWIs) influence the health of humans and wildlife but a unifying framework is needed to understand the causes of HWI
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July 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Fun to be a part of this group of urban ecologists, led by @mhmurray.bsky.social ! Here's our first publication:
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
Meet Patches, as the cemetery staff call him.
June 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Meet Patches, as the cemetery staff call him.
Back to urban wildlife work 🧪🦊🤞
June 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Back to urban wildlife work 🧪🦊🤞
The Berryman Institute brings you the second edition of The Human-Wildlife Report - a quarterly newsletter with updates on the most recent research by our faculty & students, news & media highlights, & education and outreach events & opportunities.
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Anyone remember a few years ago when there were these videos of 'extreme' sheepherding with lights?!? Like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90Z...
Well, I saw one video and immediately thought: no carnivore is going near those lit up herds, lol. Then...I thought WAIT, let's try it. 🧪🐑🐺
Well, I saw one video and immediately thought: no carnivore is going near those lit up herds, lol. Then...I thought WAIT, let's try it. 🧪🐑🐺
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May 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Anyone remember a few years ago when there were these videos of 'extreme' sheepherding with lights?!? Like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90Z...
Well, I saw one video and immediately thought: no carnivore is going near those lit up herds, lol. Then...I thought WAIT, let's try it. 🧪🐑🐺
Well, I saw one video and immediately thought: no carnivore is going near those lit up herds, lol. Then...I thought WAIT, let's try it. 🧪🐑🐺
The bears like our [duct tape] hair snare! 😍🧪🐻
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The bears like our [duct tape] hair snare! 😍🧪🐻
I was in the field so delayed to share this new paper led by Heather Abernathy & Mark Ditmer showing that deer respond more to humans than cougars. Cool application of smart phone data!📱😺🦌🚶🧪
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Dynamic riskscapes for prey: disentangling the impact of human and cougar presence on deer behavior using GPS smartphone locations
Prey species adjust their behavior along human-use gradients by balancing risks from predators and humans. During hunting seasons, prey often exhibit strong antipredator responses to humans but may d....
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May 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I was in the field so delayed to share this new paper led by Heather Abernathy & Mark Ditmer showing that deer respond more to humans than cougars. Cool application of smart phone data!📱😺🦌🚶🧪
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Anna Miller and I spent this week with MS student Sara and her fantastic techs building hair snares in Michigan for our Baldwin Black Bear Project. Hoping for lots of samples! 🐻🤞🐻
May 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Anna Miller and I spent this week with MS student Sara and her fantastic techs building hair snares in Michigan for our Baldwin Black Bear Project. Hoping for lots of samples! 🐻🤞🐻
We're hiring a part-time field tech in California! Hoping to find someone local to help us out! Check it out on the opportunities tab of my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com/opportunitie...
Opportunities
There are no graduate student opportunities to join the Young lab at this time. Julie anticipates advertising for a PhD student to start ~Jan 2026 to work on an urban mesocarnivore study with...
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April 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We're hiring a part-time field tech in California! Hoping to find someone local to help us out! Check it out on the opportunities tab of my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com/opportunitie...